Posted by execva on May 10, 2011
I read a headline in the Australian Financial Review this morning that “Small Business Wins Tax Write-Off”! Woo hoo I thought. Finally something for small biz. Don’t count your chickens…. On further reading, what the budget actually says is that now I can claim up to $5000 instant write-off on capital purchases, including cars purchased [...]
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Posted by execva on September 25, 2010
Regular readers will remember when I broke the news to the VA industry that the Labor Government had on its agenda proposed changes to PSI Criteria that would potentially affect over 2 million self-employed and independent contractors (updated on 18 August). This week the Australian Financial Review exposed the fact that the ALP has effectively [...]
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| Tags: Australia, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, independent contractor, Labor Government, Trade union
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Posted by execva on August 18, 2010
Since my last post on whether the ALP intends to move ahead with proposed changes to PSI criteria or not for independent contractors here’s an update. Unfortunately, still no news from the ALP’s Craig Emerson – and none from my local ALP member for Maranoa either – despite he was going to “look into it” [...]
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| Tags: Australian Labor Party, election 2010, federal election, ICA, independent contractor, Julia Gillard, Labor Government, Labor Party, Liberal Party, LNP, personal services income, PSI criteria, Small Business, Tony Abbott
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Posted by execva on August 5, 2010
It’s not as sexy a headline as the Mining Tax but did you know about the Labor Government’s proposed changes to personal services income criteria? I attended the Small Business Summit in Brisbane in July 2010 when Tony Abbott alluded to proposed changes to be made by the Labor Government should it be returned at [...]
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| Tags: Australian Labor Party, election 2010, federal election, ICA, independent contractors, Jullia Gillard, Labor Government, Labor Party, Liberal Party of Australia, mining tax, personal services income, PSI criteria, Small Business, Tony Abbott
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